Imposing Figures Reported from Japan Tokyo, Mar. 8
According to a report which was published to-day by the Central Meteorological Observatory, Tokyo, the total number of earthquakes registered in Japan, last year, was 6,027, of which, 2,069 wore felt by the people and 3,058 were registered at the Observatory but not felt by the people, The above shows an increase by 817 tremors as compared with the year before last, and makes an average of 16) tremors a day.
'Such increase, it is further stated, was due to the earthquake in the northern district of Tango of March 4, Just year, when more than 1,000 main tremor—Toho, preliminary' tremors preceded th
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